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Dana Wen

Dana Wen (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s Technology Editor) is a Seattle-based pianist and software engineer who writes about music, technology, and everything in between.
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Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater Explores American String Quartets

“American music! What’s its stylistic range, and what’s its dance potential?” asked New York Times d...
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Dana Wen
The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk

5 questions to Nat Evans (composer)

On April 30, Seattle-based composer Nat Evans stepped onto the Pacific Crest Trail, beginning a summ...
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Gear Review: Meze 11 Deco Earphones

Founded in 2009 by Romanian designer Antonio Meze, Meze Headphones creates distinctive audio devices...
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Dana Wen
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5 questions to Madeleine Cocolas (composer)

At the beginning of 2013, Seattle-based composer Madeleine Cocolas made a resolution to write one pi...
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App Review: In Your Own Time

This post is part of our ongoing series of app reviews for mobile devices. In September, Thomas post...
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5 questions to Elena Dubinets (new music scholar, artistic advisor for Seattle Chamber Players)

A champion of contemporary and experimental music, Seattle-based scholar Elena Dubinets balances her...
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Dana Wen
Tonara Sheet Music for iPad

iPads and Apps Make Page Turning a Breeze for Musicians [Excerpt]

This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of our new I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Magazine. Download the (free) app no...
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Dana Wen
So Percussion neither Anvil nor Pulley

So Percussion: Dan Trueman’s neither Anvil nor Pulley on Cantaloupe

Dan Trueman's neither Anvil nor Pulley ("nAnP") opens with the old-fashioned crackle of a vinyl reco...
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Dan Trueman

5 questions to Dan Trueman (composer)

Composer and innovator Dan Trueman tinkers with gadgets new and old in search of novel musical sound...
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Stanford’s Music & Brain Symposium Explores “Inner Voices”

This is the second post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Musi...
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Jonathan Berger’s Visitations Paints Operatic Portraits of Hallucination

This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
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Jonathan Berger

5 questions to Jonathan Berger (composer, founder of the Music & Brain Symposium)

Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers...
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Dana Wen
Henry Vega and Anat Spiegel perform Wormsongs

Exploring Futurism With Henry Vega’s Wormsongs

Composer Henry Vega's latest work, Wormsongs, blends live vocals, real-time electronic audio, and vi...
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Update: Bringing Technology Into the Mix

Dana Wen, Technology Editor. As you’ve probably noticed from our site tagline, the mission of...
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Dana Wen
The Box is Empty - Photo by Brad Pierson

The Box is Empty & Nat Evans: An evening of premieres at Seattle’s Century Ballroom

Located at the heart of Seattle's hip Capitol Hill neighborhood, the historic Century Ballroom is th...
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Dana Wen

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